**OFFICIAL WAR THREAD** 7th Calvary fights off Iraqi attack; Bush seeks 75 billion for war

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Just imagine (though premature) that we took out Saddam and the Iraqi leadership in one precise blow...this "conflict" would go down in history as the "90 Minute War" or "Much Ado ABout Nothing"

That would be one VERY EXPENSIVE 90 minute war doncha think?

You mean you don't have a coupon code you could pass along? :Q

 

[gump47371]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Just imagine (though premature) that we took out Saddam and the Iraqi leadership in one precise blow...this "conflict" would go down in history as the "90 Minute War" or "Much Ado ABout Nothing"

That would be one VERY EXPENSIVE 90 minute war doncha think?

If you watched your fellow countrymen being fed into a plastic shredder, would you want your liberators quibbling about how much your liberation would cost?

 

[ElFenix]

well, i haven't seen a commercial or a drop of sweat on aaron brown's face all night

 

[steelnewfie]

We should be able to get the inside scoop on stuff, considering we're the geeks of geeks.. There has to be AT'ers over there somewhere, or who knows someone with net access to give us a webcam broadcast or something, in one of the cities getting hit, or just intel on what got hit, etc.....That would be cool...

 

[SgtBuddy]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

no no no, you don't get it. Due to an unwritten (or maybe even written) rule, we do not go after foreign heads of state. Our actual target was Saddam's goat(lets not go there) which just happens to always be with Saddam. Now if he happened to be killed in the strike, oh well.

Saddam is a legal target under the Laws of Armed Conflict. He is a military member. It would not violate any Excutive Orders against assasination either.

 

[LocutusX]

check out: http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

 

[Greyd]

ooo Sadaam is moving troops and military into civilian areas.....I'm not surprised at all.....

 

[NFS4]

Troops in N. Kuwait told to put their gas masks on

 

[VFAA]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Troops in N. Kuwait told to put their gas masks on

Turns out the 2 missiles launched against coalition were just regular, not chemical *sigh*...

Too tired to watch more though I'd love to stay up and watch... Gonna retire .

 

[VFAA]

More missiles reported heading south towards Kuwait City...

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: VFAA
More missiles reported heading south towards Kuwait City...

Thought you were going to bed?

But yeah, scuds hitting US locations. Patriots launching in response

 

[0roo0roo]

patriots scored one hit

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
patriots scored one hit

THat's more than we can say for what happened back in '91

They must have upgraded the guidance software to ver 4.0

 

[0roo0roo]

i wonder how many missed though. its unconfirmed anyways, anchor just read it

 

[technogeeky]

I don't understand what these news people are saying.

"These are the very weapons that Iraq said they do not have."

What does that mean? Is it because these things were (or are probably not) loaded with Chemical agents?

Is it because they can travel as far as they can (anyone know the distance from the Kuwaiti border to Kuwait city?

 

[technogeeky]

A ranked military soldier just told Oliver North that the Patriot PAC3 destroyed the incoming missiles.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Ugh... watching CNN just hurts. Wanting to give information but being forced into conjecture and speculation. Heh

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: jjyiz28

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[GaminFreak2002]

Iraqi News Confrence right now... FOX NEWS

 

[rudeguy]

anyone hear anything more about that plane that went down near the kuwait iraq border??? they were saying that the entire iraqi air force is just cessnas now...

 

[sandorski]

Iraqi missiles fired were not SCUDS. I really doubt Saddam has any left after 10-12 years of Air Strikesand what not.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
anyone hear anything more about that plane that went down near the kuwait iraq border??? they were saying that the entire iraqi air force is just cessnas now...

No, I've not heard any more about that. They were just talking about some US special forces helicopter that was forced to land and destroyed by the special forces so the Iraqis couldn't get it. Anybody have more info on that?

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Iraqi missiles fired were not SCUDS. I really doubt Saddam has any left after 10-12 years of Air Strikesand what not.

Fox News has learned from Coalition Defense officials that at least one of the missiles fired was a Scud.

 

[rudeguy]

I really think that guy that gave the speach was a fake, if you look at him up close he doesnt look quite right...eyebrows way bigger than saddams, puffier cheeks, and just something weird about him...

 

[ToBeMe]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Iraqi missiles fired were not SCUDS. I really doubt Saddam has any left after 10-12 years of Air Strikesand what not.

Didn't go through all 423 posts, but, can tell you this, it is quite easy to detect whether the missile(s) were scuds by the trajectory. US/Brittish intel is saying they were and patriot defense systems intercepted. I can believe that they were simply because the trajectory of shorter range missiles are much flater and thus interception is much more difficult. The patriot systems are not designed for these shorter range, flat trajectory missiles.........................